A lightyear is the distance that light travels in a vacuum in one Earth year. It's a unit of astronomical distance.

There are approximately 5.27 x 10^20 yards in one lightyear. This makes 50,000 yards a very, very small fraction of a lightyear.

This conversion is typically used for educational purposes to illustrate the immense scale difference between everyday distances and the vast distances in space. For practical astronomy, yards are not used.

No, 50,000 yards is an extremely short distance in the context of space. It's roughly equivalent to 45.7 kilometers or about 28.4 miles, which is minuscule compared to astronomical scales measured in lightyears.